Newsflash 12 die in hurricane newsflash 30 die in plane crash news flash 50 pounds starving to death in Bangladesh. news news news What do you hear negative, horrible things 10 women raped in such and such Camp 50 people found beaten to death. Violent The world is more violent place than ever right? There's more starvation than ever right? There's more misery than ever right? There's more plane crashes than ever, right?

Wrong, wrong and wrong. Rules actually never been a safer place than it is right now. Crime is lower than it's ever been. deaths associated from wars have never been lower starvation, as a percentage of the human population has never been lower, but you wouldn't gather them from looking at the know the news, yeah, but people in third world countries are all having 10 babies and the population explodes rolls in a direct. Wrong, wrong wrong. country like India, their birth rate has gone from 678 Kids per women a couple generations ago to now fewer than three.

Most population experts expect the world population to peak at around 11 billion which will be a sustainable number. And it's actually possible for 11 billion people to live on the planet and have zero, starving to death and living in abject poverty. But you would never know that by reading most daily newspapers, or watching most TV news broadcast or radio broadcast now. It's not all about fake news or partisanship part of it is just The idea of news is what stands out. It's simply not interesting to have a reporter stand out in front of an airport and say, we've had another thousand flights land safely this week. It's not interesting.

What's interesting is the occasional airplane crash. reality is there's no place in the world you'll ever be safer than an airplane. Fewer than 1000 people a year dying and airplane crashes now used to be much, much higher. You are never safer. Then being in the ocean, unless you're in an airplane. But yet that gets so much attention because of the rare shark bite.

We hear about shark bites because it is so rare. It's extraordinarily unlikely that you're going to be eaten and killed by a shark. But we get scared by that because that's what generates News, productive people. And I'm going to give you a few caveats and exceptions. productive people have learned how to tune out the news because any one news story may be well reported may factually be correct. Be true be well written.

But overall, it creates a vast distortion. If you consume vast amounts of news, you have a fundamentally distorted vision of the world. You think things are getting worse and worse and worse and worse. That creates pessimism. That gives you the sense of why bother? Oh my gosh, Why wasn't I awful?

Even create kids? Is the world getting worse than orders? are we all going to die in that can create paralysis? If you think the world is constantly getting worse, why bother to produce Why bother to be productive So here's what I found is an amazingly consistent thing among wildly productive people. They don't watch any television is apologies to my friends in TV news. And I spent many, many, many years myself spending a lot of time in TV networks going on TV newscast I've been on.

Certainly every major American TV broadcast, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, you name it. And they're all nice people. And I would say most of them are trying to give you accurate stories. But fundamentally, it's a waste of time TV, especially because it takes so long to consume the news as opposed to reading stories that are of interest to you. So I find wildly successful people, most of them unless they are in the TV news business. Do not Watch TV news at all.

Let me say that again, the most productive people in the world unless they're in the TV news business, do not spend time watching TV news at all. Certainly not local news, which is an absolute wasteland of local high school sports that you probably don't care about unless you're at that high school. Weather, which takes 10 minutes to tell you what you can do by looking at your phone in two seconds. And a car crash which you're not in. And someone who was shot which unless it's a member of your family doesn't affect you. So the crime stories, the sports, the weather, that's what local news in lots and lots of car commercials.

Complete waste of time for anyone who's trying to be productive in the world. Cable News really isn't any better. I'm not asking you to tune out and not be a citizen. I'm not asking you not to vote in your country. I am recommending that you find a faster news source. You've heard me mentioned that before.

I believe that productive people what I try to do myself limit themselves to no more than 30 minutes a day of news consumption. Some wildly successful people I know go so far to the extreme they claim they consume no news. I've heard world renowned sales expert and author Jeffrey Gitomer and associate of mine and someone I'm friendly with, has said in speeches, he watches no news, nothing. Nothing at all. Because he spends his time rate creating more bestselling books, giving more speeches, to 10s of thousands of people and creating value in his expertise. That's what he did.

I'm not saying you have to cut yourself off completely from news. We are citizens of our municipalities, cities, states, countries, continents and the world. You do have to know and I do consume some news, but I try to limit it to 30 minutes a day. In part because it's just so distorting, because all that will do is depress you. And in part because it's simply crowds out other time on your calendar for learning new information for reading new books, for finding more positive sources of information about subjects of your interest of your concern of your subject matter. So that's why I really have to stress to you if you if you ignore everything else in this course, and I talked about this briefly at the beginning one of the quick top 10 tips and just do this one thing, just absolutely literally cut yourself off.

From more than 30 minutes of news a day and not watching any TV news or video news push to you on YouTube or Facebook, you have so much more time to be productive. Even if you waste a couple hours a day talking to friends, you'll probably still have an hour to do extra work or write a novel or new program or an app to be productive on your terms. Just from the time you save. From not watching news. You'll also not be stressed out as much and thinking the world is going to be destroyed. world is getting better, doesn't mean your world is gonna get better or your immediate family or friends but in general, the world is getting better.

And perhaps the best way for you to make it even better is to focus on producing more products, more services, more acts of kindness, whatever it is Do you like to produce instead of simply consuming more idiots yelling at themselves and yelling at other people on TV